This #MosaicMonday we travel metaphorically to the Bardo Museum in Tunis to see this beautiful marine scene with what looks to be a goddess holding a rope. I’m not familiar with this iconography, but have seen this scene repeated in other mosaics, so if you know what’s going on here, I’d love to learn more.
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If it's from Tunis, is that Roman or Carthaginian?
Suddenly it occurs to me that I've never thought of Carthaginian mosaics and art as a thing or category until right at this very moment.
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The goddess is helping to set up the rope line at the dolphin club.
If you're not on the list, you can't swim in.
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But the cow. Why is there a cow in the sea?
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